Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2016
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 125 Tex. Crim. 477 - Williams v. State · 43 Tex. Crim. 285 - Lee v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Indeed, he [the defendant] might have known he was doing something wrong, that he should not be having intercourse with [the complaint]. However, there is a difference between engaging in an illicit act of intercourse and engaging in that act knowing the woman is so mentally diseased [or defective] she cannot resist it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia v. State““Rape (as used herein) is the carnal knowledge of a woman other than the wife of the person having sitch carnal knowledge, such woman being so mentally diseased at the time as to have no will to oppose the act of carnal knowledge. The person having carnal knowledge of her knowing her to be so mentally diseased.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradford v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.